Most students are usually introduced to the study of history by way of a fat textbook and become quickly immersed in a vast sea of names, dates,events and statistics. The students' skills are then tested by examinations that require them to show how...
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THE HITCH-hiker It had been touch and go whether Carole Phillips would reach the London main-line station in time to catch the last train. She had worked very late last night, preparing a report on the small department she managed in the London offic...
Waiting for the Police I wonder where Mr Wainwright's gone?' said Mrs Mayton. It didn't matter to her in the least where he had gone. All that mattered was that he paid his three guineas a week regularly for board and lodging. But life - and particul...
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The Pleasures of Learning*/Gilbert Highet As most schools are set up today, learning is compulsory. It is an Ought: even worse, a Must, enforced by regular hours and rigid discipline. And the young sneer at the Oughts and resist the Musts with all th...
Thinking as a Hobby William Golding While I was still a boy, I came to the conclusion that there were three grades of thinking;and that I myself could not think at all. It was the headmaster of my grammar school who first brought the subject of think...
Text A The President as Corporate Salesman The president of the United States, we learn in school, plays many roles: chief executive, commander-in-chief, chief legislator, head of state, and party leader. Seldom mentioned is this role as guardian and...
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Text A Mercy at Appomattox I'm not a Civil War buff. I've never heard the old battlefields like Gettysburg and Chickamauga calling to me to walk over them and re-enact what happened there. The story is just too sad. But one Civil War site did keep be...
